but hanging over everything is the nsa leaker edward snowden who's in russia right now on a visa. who jay carney said is also a factor in the fighter. republican leaders wasted little time sounding almost gleeful about this. according to a spokesperson for john boehner, the president's signature foreign policy accomplishment from the first term, a reset with russia, has just collapsed. for boehner, this is just another opportunity to attack the president. which is a job requirement of a republican speaker. other republicans like john mccain who know what they're talking about said they agreed with the president's decision but suggested going even further in cooling our relationship with moscow. steve kornacki is host of "up with steve kornacki." generally or up with you. anyway, it's on weekend mornings and doing great, and john is a great historian, analyst, and author of a great book "the center holds" about the 2012 election. let's try, steve and then john. it seems to me, you whack him if he goes right, whack him if he goes left if he's a republican. boehner says we failed to